Patti S. (Pattakins) reviewed The Cat Who Robbed a Bank (Cat Who..., Bk 22) on + 365 more book reviews
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I have been reading The Cat Who books in order, and this one was just as great as the others. As each book is written, the characters become more engaging.
The townsfolk are excited to have the Picaxe Hotel reopening, with a new look and a new name. There is as also much excitement over Mr. Delacamp coming to town. He is an estate jeweler who shows up about every 5 years to buy and sell to the people in the area. He is the first person to stay in the Mark Twain Penthouse in the hotel. When he is found dead in the room, Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese Cat, Koko are on the case. Who could be the killer? When several people disappear from town, it adds to the mystery.
The townsfolk are excited to have the Picaxe Hotel reopening, with a new look and a new name. There is as also much excitement over Mr. Delacamp coming to town. He is an estate jeweler who shows up about every 5 years to buy and sell to the people in the area. He is the first person to stay in the Mark Twain Penthouse in the hotel. When he is found dead in the room, Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese Cat, Koko are on the case. Who could be the killer? When several people disappear from town, it adds to the mystery.
Joanne L. (00JOANNE00) reviewed The Cat Who Robbed a Bank (Cat Who..., Bk 22) on + 65 more book reviews
Highland High-Jinx in this 22nd Qwilleran mystery. A renowned jewelry dealer from Chicago is found dead in his room at the new hotel..... can Koko's newfound interest in photographs, pennies and paper towels help Qwin to the murderer?
Debra H. (a-gold-star) reviewed The Cat Who Robbed a Bank (Cat Who..., Bk 22) on + 15 more book reviews
Qwilleran and his crime-solving Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum are back on the case in Pickax, the biggest little city in Moose County, which is 400 miles north of everywhere but still boasts a remarkably sophisticated social and cultural scene.
Hardly a day or a night goes by without a tea, dinner party, crafts fair, play, or pageant, all of which are attended and described in great detail by Qwilleran, a former crime reporter whose not very onerous duties entail writing a feature column for the local newspaper as well as overseeing the civic philanthropy made possible by an inheritance from a wealthy friend of his deceased mother.
Fans of this long-running and immensely popular series will delight in this 23rd installment, in which the matrons of Pickax are buying French perfume and blueing their hair for the annual visit of Mr. Delacamp, a jeweler from Down Under (Chicago), whose arrival will coincide with the reopening of the town's fabulously refurbished grand hotel. When the mysterious Mr. Delacamp is found dead in the presidential suite, and his "niece" goes missing along with the jewels and the cash, Qwilleran and his curious cats investigate.
Hardly a day or a night goes by without a tea, dinner party, crafts fair, play, or pageant, all of which are attended and described in great detail by Qwilleran, a former crime reporter whose not very onerous duties entail writing a feature column for the local newspaper as well as overseeing the civic philanthropy made possible by an inheritance from a wealthy friend of his deceased mother.
Fans of this long-running and immensely popular series will delight in this 23rd installment, in which the matrons of Pickax are buying French perfume and blueing their hair for the annual visit of Mr. Delacamp, a jeweler from Down Under (Chicago), whose arrival will coincide with the reopening of the town's fabulously refurbished grand hotel. When the mysterious Mr. Delacamp is found dead in the presidential suite, and his "niece" goes missing along with the jewels and the cash, Qwilleran and his curious cats investigate.
The residents of Pickax are delighted that the old bombed-out Pickax Hotel is reopening with a whole new look. With new furnishings, a new chef, and even a new name, what could be more thrilling? Everyone is thrown into a topspin when one of the hotel's first guests, a jeweler who has come to town to buy heirloom jewelry from some of Pickax's oldest families, winds up a victim of murder. Who could have committed such a horrible crime? Could it be the hotel clerk, a recent winner of a gold medal for the caber toss at the Highland Games?
Qwilleran and his snooping Siamese are willing to go to any lengths to find the killer and set the town at ease. But first they'll have to contend with a hijacked bookmobile, an attempted bank robbery . . . and a few of the cats' preoccupations. Koko has a newfound fondness for pennies, and Koko and Yum Yum both are obsessed with chewing on gum wrappers -- but for entirely different reasons, of course.
Qwilleran and his snooping Siamese are willing to go to any lengths to find the killer and set the town at ease. But first they'll have to contend with a hijacked bookmobile, an attempted bank robbery . . . and a few of the cats' preoccupations. Koko has a newfound fondness for pennies, and Koko and Yum Yum both are obsessed with chewing on gum wrappers -- but for entirely different reasons, of course.
